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November 2005: Prostitution Also see: November 2005: Trafficking |
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Nov 05 | Met cracks prostitution and trafficking ring | Met Police Bulletin | The Metropolitan Police uncovered seven brothels in west London during the hunt for a missing 16-year-old Lithuanian girl. Investigation exposed sex trafficking gang. Five men to be sentenced. | |
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01-Nov-05 | Kerb-crawlers targeted in blitz on prostitution | The Scotsman Alan McEwen |
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| 01-Nov-05 | Focus on prostitution report | The Scotsman | |||
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02-Nov-05 | New law to focus on kerb crawlers in red light crackdown | Times Online Angus Macleod |
Executive to outlaw Kerb-crawling and to put pressure on sex customers. Current law in Scotland only criminalises prostitutes. Proposals to send sex customers to 'John schools' for re-education planned. | |
| Finally, a vice law which fits the Bill | The Scotsman Margo MacDonald |
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| New law to target kerb crawlers in Scotland | 24dash.com | ||||
| Police clampdown on kerb-crawlers | BBC News | ||||
| Shake-up targets prostitutes' clients | Scotsman Shan Ross |
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03-Nov-05 | Fiscal is nicked over sex act with vice girl | Daily Record Richard Elias |
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Glasgow Senior prosecutor Stuart MacFarlane arrested over alleged sex act with a prostitute |
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04-Nov-05 | It could soon be legal to sell sex on the streets | Daily Mail |
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Scottish Executive is drawing plans for a Sentencing Bill that would mean neither the women who sell sex nor the men who buy it will be prosecuted unless they cause a public nuisance. |
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04-Nov-05 | Praise for police action on sex trade | Evening Telegraph | Tayside Police gave the Stobswell area of Dundee extra attention after residents complained about prostitutes and kerb crawlers. The Telegraph published articles regarding the issue and the police action was successful. | |
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06-Nov-05 | Sex-trafficked victims to be offered refuge | Sunday Herald Jenifer Johnston |
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06-Nov-05 | Lawman: My sauna sex with hookers | Sunday Mail Norman Silvester |
Advocate Alan Muir, Scots lawman admitted paying for sex in a sauna. Revealed details of his sex life in "The Firm" magazine in article defending former Sheriff Hugh Neilson. Muir does not believe Neilson should have lost job after caught in Glasgow sauna (raided due to suspected sex trafficking.) | |
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09-Nov-05 | The word on the streets | Guardian Mark Gould |
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"Official statistics show that 60 prostitutes have been murdered in the UK in the last 10 years. A controversial new self-help guide offers advice to sex workers on surviving life in red light districts." |
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12-Nov-05 | My daughter’s killer must never be freed | Norwich Evening News | Norwich 56-year-old traveller "Stanley" received two life sentences, one for murdering Hayley Curtis, 23 yr. Old Norwich prostitute, and for five serious attacks on former partner Fiance Richards. |
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13-Nov-05 | Red light tour condemned as 'sick' | Observer Gemma Bowes |
Tour operator Thomas Cook launching tours to see prostitutes in Amsterdam's red light district. The night-time excursions include a briefing about the 'system' from a former prostitute and are open to children of any age. | |
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14-Nov-05 | Contractor's fling with lap dancer returns £73,000 | Contractor UK | Dublin-based Kieron Sutton, a married IT contractor who paid lap dancer Kay Hutchinson of London’s Spearmint Rhino strip club for her company and “sexual services” while he worked away from home has won back £73,000 he leant her. | |
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16-Nov-05 | Town studies 'control zone' for vice girls | Yorkshire Post Today Paul Whitehouse |
Doncaster Doncaster Council has conducted a study into six areas where a "managed zone" for prostitutes could be created. Research took place 6 months ago and to date no action has been taken. |
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17-Nov-05 | Brothel madam stripped of wealth | BBC News | Ann O'Brien (convicted in May 2005 of controlling prostitutes & sentenced to 180 hrs. of community service) faced confiscation order for more than £600,000. Faces 4 yr. prison term if does not hand over the money within 6 months. | |
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17-Nov-05 | Crime pays...until you get caught | BBC News | ||
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17-Nov-05 | Landlords offering 'lodgings for sex' | Community Care | A major national children's charity says that young people placed in B&B's are being targeted by landlords with histories as pimps. It has dealt with 4 claims of rape in recent weeks. Landlords also targeting kids on streets. | |
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18-Nov-05 | Sex worker's fear for foreigners | BBC News |
Cardiff "Louise", a prostitute working in Cardiff has spoken of her fears for the growing number of foreign women being forced to work in brothels across the city. She believes that 90% of the girls are pushed into it and that police should take a more active role in check the activity of brothels. |
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19-Nov-05 | Massage parlour victim is named | BBC News | London Aleksandra Dronjak, 28, was sexually assaulted and stabbed to death at the South Bank Holistic Medical Centre massage parlour in Kennington. She was the caretaker and lived on the premises. Dronjak is thought to be Serbian. |
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19-Nov-05 | Appeal over massage parlour murder | This is London |
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20-Nov-05 | Children in care falling prey to predators on city streets | Sunday Herald Liam McDougall |
Adults out to groom young people for sex turn to mobile phones and internet to entrap their victims | |
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20-Nov-05 | Revenue forces saunas to declare prostitutes' wages | The Scotsman Marcello Mega |
Sauna and massage parlour owners are to be asked to declare the earnings of prostitutes by tax inspectors conducting a major campaign to impose VAT on the multi-billion-pound UK vice industry. | |
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29-Nov-05 | MacDonald scraps prostitution bid | BBC News | Bill giving councils power to set prostitution tolerance zones withdrawn by Independent MSP Margo MacDonald. New offence, to be introduced through a new Sentencing Bill by 2007, will focus on the nuisance or harm arising from street prostitution-related activities, whether caused by seller or purchaser. | |
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